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Every census return shows that the death.rate among persons
of the middle ages is lower than the rates among persons at the
two extremes of age, and, further, that for nearly all ages the
death.rate of females is lower than that of males.
Consequently an excess of females, and especially of young
adult females (as occurs in Hornsey, which is largely a residential
neighbourhood, with a large number of domestic servants), must
tend to lower the death.rate of the district, apart from other considerations
which might affect the death.rate.
To enable a more correct comparison to be made between
different districts, a correction is applied to the death.rate as calculated
on the nett number of deaths, which has the effect of
eliminating any differences that arise from variations in the age
and sex distribution of the population.
The effect of this correction is to raise the death.rate of places
like Hornsey, which have an unduly favourable class of population
(as far as age and sex is concerned) and to lower the death.rate of
places which have an excess of infants, or old people, or an excessive
male population.
The following table gives the recorded and the corrected death.
rates in the 76 great towns (as far as they are at present to hand):